Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc.

Scope Of Work

Pape-Dawson managed the design teams responsible for providing civil and environmental engineering for the 1,000-room JW Marriott Resort Hotel and two PGA TOUR Tournament Players Club golf courses located in north San Antonio. The project also included a water park and a 100-space underground parking garage below the hotel’s ballroom.

The civil design team provided topographic and tree surveys and designed surface parking, site grading, new utilities, a storm drainage system, and water quality basins for the hotel. The team also provided storm drain collection system and catchment basin designs as part of the closed-loop water capture and reuse system for the golf courses. Environmental design and permitting were provided for the overall resort including environmental site assessments, karst feature evaluation, geologic assessments, water pollution abatement plans for the hotel and golf courses, and a stormwater pollution prevention plan.

In addition to onsite improvements for the resort hotel and golf courses, the team designed approximately 2 miles of two collector roadways, 8 miles of potable water lines, 1.5 miles of sanitary sewer mains, and 3 miles of electrical transmission and distribution systems for the offsite infrastructure. The project also involved the construction of two offsite water wells and a 16” pipeline to bring water to the golf courses. Pape-Dawson coordinated all aspects of the water well siting, drilling, testing, permitting, and development. The estimated value for the resort development was $600 million with $25 million in public improvements for which Pape-Dawson Engineers managed design, permitting, and construction.

All of the design teams worked together to make the overall project a success. We continue to coordinate construction for the commercial tracts and design new units within the development.

This development received LEED certification.